"We, again, have all the confidence in him in the world," Zaidi said Thursday on ESPN Los Angeles radio (via ESPN.com). "We said that during spring training when people asked about it, haven't seen anything in this first quarter of the season that has done anything to our confidence level with him."

The defending NL champions are in last place in the NL West and entered Thursday's play 16-26, the earliest the Dodgers have been 10 games under .500 since 1929, almost three decades before the team moved from Brooklyn to L.A.

On the bright side, the Dodgers are "only" 8 1/2 games out of first place with two-thirds of a long season to be played.

The good news is that if the Dodgers can play .600 baseball for the rest of the season, they'll win 88 games.

"There is no doubt in my mind that [Roberts] is the right guy to lead this team going forward," Friedman told the Los Angeles Times. "The way our minds work is not to assign blame to anyone at this point. It's to hunker down, all together, and try to solve problems.

"I'm very comfortable in saying that if we had to assign blame at this point, it should be me who is taking that, and not Doc."